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Rising to Our "Sputnik Moment"

This past Monday Secretary Chu delivered a major address at the National Press Club in which he called upon the United States to sharply accelerate innovations in clean energy, citing recent clean technology successes by China and other industrial nations as a "Sputnik Moment" for the United States

Highlights from the speech can be found on the Energy Blog, along with a recording of the full remarks.

You can also review the Secretary's "Energy Race/Sputnik Moment" powerpoint by downloading one of the following files: .PPT or .PDF.

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Geek-Up[12.03.2010]: Halomonadaceae Bacteria and the Return of Quark Gluon Plasma

As a fellow geek, you probably heard NASA's big news yesterday.

If not, here's a recap: It was once assumed that all life on Earth, from humans and giraffes to scorpions and plankton, are all based on six essential elements (oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous). However, a study led by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey has revealed a bacteria (a Halomonadaceae bacteria called GFAJ-1) in California's Mono Lake that has replaced phosphorous with its toxic neighbor on the periodic table - arsenic.

Find out more in this week's Geek-Up[date] >

Calling Excellent Math and Science Teachers -- Einstein Fellowship Deadline is January 4

Each year, the Department of Energy selects excellent elementary and secondary math and science teachers as Albert Einstein Distinguished Educators Fellows who come to DC for 11 months to share their teaching expertise with policy makers.

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Innovations: Making Biofuels More Efficient

On Tuesday, Secretary Chu spoke of the need for new innovations to lead the U.S. into a new green economy. This project out of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency lab is an example of just that.

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Secretary Chu Announces Nearly $21 Million in Technical Assistance Projects to Improve Energy Use in Commercial Buildings

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a live online chat at the White House, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that 24 projects are receiving a total of $21 million in technical assistance to dramatically reduce the energy used in their commercial buildings.

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Could 135,000 Laptops Help Solve the Energy Challenge?

Washington, D.C. - U.S Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the largest ever awards of the Department's supercomputing time to 57 innovative research projects - using computer simulations to perform virtual experiments that in most cases would be impossible or impractical in the natural world.

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